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Death caused by Eating Disorders
Medical point of view:
The consequences of the nutritional disorders can be severe. For example, one
of every 10 cases of anorexia nervosa causes death by hunger, cardiac arrest
and/or other medical complications, or by suicide.
Many patients with nutritional disorders also suffer from other psychiatric diseases like clinical anxiety, depression, and changes in personality or problems with drug abuse, or obsessive-compulsive disorder and many are in suicide risk.
Other complications include low pulse, irregular menstrual periods or loss of the periods, dehydration, low body temperature, reduction in the muscular mass, loss of calcium in the bones (debilitating them or making them easy to break), irregular heart and damages to teeth and the oesophagus due to frequent vomits.
It would be politically incorrect not to admit that anorexia and bulimia is a problem that most people want to ignore.
Fashion, money, fame, beauty… Is it really worth dying for?
Many young women see their role models as those skin and bone girls in the Fashion Industry, but do they know the truth about them?
Many famous models die every year due to the consequences of malnutrition, anorexia and bulimia.
The negative impact of the extremely thin models, and poor nutrition of young women who see them as role models, and someone to emulate, returned to the world news, in August, after the death of the Uruguayan fashion model, Luisel Ramos, 22 years old, of cardiac arrest during a fashion show. She ate only lettuce and drank diet soda water in the last few weeks before collapsing while modelling, dying instantly.
Shortly afterwards, her younger sister was found dead in her flat in Montevideo, also a model, who suffered from anorexia.
Ana Carolina Reston is another model who died because of bulimia and the anorexia this year. This Brazilian young woman, ate only apples and tomatoes in her last few weeks. She started modeling from the age of 13. The reason? Her kidneys were so deteriorated that they collapsed at the age of 21.
Almost the day after her death, it came out in the Victoria' s Secret calendar in the newspapers, where the header was something like “Brazilian models dazzle in sensual parade”… That’s ironic.
Between November and December of 2006, four other Brazilian young women related to the modeling world, died by health complications derived from anorexia nervosa.
One of them was the international model Ana Carolina Reston, of 21 years, who was 1,72 meters tall and died weighing 40 kilos, as a result of a generalized infection due to anorexia.
Is it possible that the world of the fashion will change?
